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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Arsenal Pulp Press	Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This …	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore	368	2021	View
Decolonize Hipsters Between The Lines	Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that …	Grégory Pierrot	148	2021	View
In Search of a Better World A Human Rights Odyssey House of Anansi Press	A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human …	Payam Akhavan	401	2017	View
Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East From European Colony to US Power Projection Platform bar	One US military leader has called Israel “the intelligence equivalent of five CIAs.” An Israeli cabinet minister likens his country to “the equivalent of a dozen US aircraft …	Stephen Gowans	252	2019	View
NEW! My Road from Damascus A Memoir ECW Press	"An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the …	Jamal Saeed	440	2022	View
NEW! Myths of Modern History From the French Revolution to the 20th century world wars and the Cold War - new perspectives on key events James Lorimer and Company	Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels challenges readers to reconsider what they know about some key events in the last 250 years of world history. At a time when it’s all too easy to …	Jacques R. Pauwels	392	2022	View
Patriots, Traitors and Empires The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom Baraka Books	“In the night of our ignorance, North Korea confirms all stereotypes.”—Bruce Cumings Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the …	Stephen Gowans	272	2018	View
NEW! Postcards from Congo A Graphic History Arsenal Pulp Press	The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and …	Edmund Trueman	176	2022	View
Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction Baraka Books	“… essential reading.” Edward S. Herman An accepted narrative holds that horrible Rwandan Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly a million Tutsis after a …	Robin Philpot	276	2013	View
Slouching Towards Sirte NATO's War on Libya and Africa Baraka Books	NATO’s war in Libya was proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing in the name of “saving lives.” Attempts at diplomacy were stifled. Peace talks were subverted. …	Maximilian C. Forte	344	2012	View
The Einstein File The FBI’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist - New Updated Edition Baraka Books	Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI—with other …	Ajamu Baraka; David Suzuki; Fred Jerome	402	2018	View
The Legacy of Tiananmen Square Goose Lane Editions	More than 20 years after the Tiananmen Square uprising, Michel Cormier, CBC Television’s former China correspondent, examines the still-born legacy of the Tiananmen Square student protests …	Michael Cormier	240	2013	View
NEW! Up the Coast One Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia NeWest Press	Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when children were set loose to play in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and …	Kathryn Willcock	224	2022	View
Walls Travels Along the Barricades Goose Lane Editions	Winner, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Shortlisted, Dolman Travel Book Award Longlisted, …	Marcello Di Cintio	288	2013	View
Washington’s Long War on Syria Baraka Books	When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The …	Stephen Gowans	280	2017	View
From Between Certain Death and a Possible Future An Introduction From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future Preview Arsenal Pulp Press	The editor of the collection frames introduces the volume by exploring his youthful feelings about his sexuality, and the onset of the AIDS epidemic.	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore	6	2021	$0.60 Add